Faculty

Piano

Deborah Miles

Voice

Bianka Ede
Heather MacLeod

Violin

Annette Dominik
Cvetozar Vutev
Sandra Wilmot

Viola

Cvetozar Vutev

Cello

Martin Kratky

Double Bass

Wiktor Lebeda

Flute

Catharine Dochstader
Bailey Finley

Clarinet/Saxophone

Sally Arai

French Horn/Trumpet

Bruce Dunn

Country Fiddle/Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev

Music Theory

Deborah Miles

Youth String Orchestra

Cvetozar Vutev

Music for Young Children

Jane Dyck

Country Fiddle

Cvetozar Vutev

Bluegrass

Cvetozar Vutev

• Principal Clarinet, Kamloops Symphony (22 years)
• Master of Music (performance) and Bachelor of Music (general),
  University of British Columbia
• Music for Young Children certified teacher
• 24 years clarinet teaching experience
• Festival adjudication experience
• Provincial clinician

• Principal Flute, Kamloops Symphony (27 years)
• Bachelor of Arts (music) and Associate of Music (flute performance), University of Western Ontario
• Ontario Education Certification
• Training in Kodaly, Orff, Suzuki and Yamaha music methods
• 30 years flute teaching experience

• Registered Suzuki ECC/Unit 1-violin teacher
• Trained at Vancouver Academy of Music
• 35 years of orchestral playing
• Extensive chamber music experience
• Founding member of the Kamloops Symphony

• Music Director, Kamloops Symphony (27 years)
• Music Director, Symphony of the Kootenays (15 years)
• Instructor of Orchestral Conducting, University of British Columbia (16 years)
• 30 years french horn performance experience with the Vancouver Symphony, CBC Vancouver Orchestra and National Ballet Orchestra
• 42 years french horn and trumpet teaching experience

• Royal Conservatory of Music ARCT Piano Performer
• Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 4 Piano
• Royal Conservatory of Music grade 10 Violin
• Community member of the Kamloops Symphony - 11 years
• Concertmaster of TRO
• Private violin, piano and cello teacher for 11 years in Kamloops

Bailey Finley is a diverse flautist who avidly promotes new music. Her specialty is working with composers to develop new repertoire for the flute.

She is a co-founder of Trio Taco, a new music group that works to make contemporary music more approachable through education. With the trio, Finley has premiered numerous works and performed across Canada. During summer 2018 the trio completed a successful educational tour in Ontario featuring music by living composers.

Finley is an active performer in Victoria’s new music scene often collaborating with the Victoria Composers Collective and other local composers. She was a guest artist for the Victoria Composers Collective during their 2018 Okanagan tour and performer/organizer for their 3rd annual Oak Bay New Music Festival. Outside of the new music scene, Finley also pairs with Emily MacCallum to create a celtic flute and fiddle duo. February 2018 they hosted An Evening of Celtic Music in Kamloops, BC, which raised enough money to send a student to Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music.

Bailey values the sense of community and belonging that music can create and is working to help share this with as many people as possible. Many of her projects feature educational components, sliding scale admission fees and diverse composer demographics.

• Principal Cellist, Kamloops Symphony
• Assistant Principal, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra
• Graduate of the University of Toronto, Bachelor of Music in Performance 
• Graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Master of Music
• Also Teaches at the Kelowna Community Music school and the Penticton Academy of Music

• Principle Bass, Kamloops Symphony
• Bass player in Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra and others
• Przemysl College of Music in Poland, winning the Polish National Music Competition
• Masters degree in double bass performance from Gnessin Academy of Music in Moscow
• He was professor at institutions such as Lipinski Academy of Music (Wroclaw), National Institute of Music in Tunis, Conservatorio de Tolima, Universidad Central de Bogota

• B.Mus in Vocal Performance from University of Victoria (2015)
• 3rd Place Recipient at FCMF National Music Festival (2018)
• National Class Winner at Performing Arts BC Festival (2018)
• Young Artist at Russian Opera Workshop (Philadelphia)
• Fellow at SongFest L.A. (L.A.)
• Extensive performance experience in both recital and opera throughout North America
• Four years of voice teaching experience

• Over 20 years teaching experience
• ARCT Diploma with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
• Participates in local music teacher meetings and attending national and international conferences to keep her skills current.
• She incorporates the study of harmony, counterpoint, analysis, music history, pedagogy and performing into daily planning and training.
• She has had the opportunity to work with a number of distinguished piano teachers such as Alexander Alexandrov, Mary Burns, Robert Rosen, and Janice Dahlberg.

• Master's degree in violin performance under Boyan Lechev at Pancho Vladigerov
• State Academy of Music in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1990
• Doctorate in musicology and musical arts at Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music in 2016
• His violin teachers included also Yfrah Neaman (UK) and Wolfgang Marschner (Germany)
• More than 30 years of violin teaching and performing experience
• Performed in numerous solo, chamber, symphony and opera performances in 12 European countries, Rep.of Korea, Japan and Canada
• Concertmaster with the Kamloops Symphony since September 2005
• Concertmaster with Symphony of the Kootenays since 2016, and first violin player with the Okanagan Symphony since 2006
• Performed several times as a soloist with the Kamloops Symphony and Symphony of the Kootenays
• Music director of Vivace Chorale in Kamloops since 2007
• Music director of Brandenburg Orchestra since 2012
• Received the Kamloops Mayor’s Award for the Arts - Artist of the Year, Performing Arts in 2017

Sandra Wilmot is a Kelowna-based freelance violinist, educator, piano accompanist, clinician, journalist, and award-winning composer. She plays regularly with both the Okanagan and Kamloops Symphony Orchestras and maintains a large studio of private students and string ensembles at the Kelowna Community Music School, Kamloops Symphony Music School, and Penticton Academy of Music. She has played professionally with various other orchestras across Canada, including the Saskatoon Symphony, and has attended many prominent orchestral and early music intensive summer programs. Sandra has also worked extensively as a classroom music teacher and has taught at various summer music camps throughout the B.C. Interior and currently runs one of B.C.’s largest string camps, Strings the Thing which takes place every July in Kelowna. Sandra is a graduate of the University of British Columbia.